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American business is lobbying the Trump administration hard to pressure Britain into lowering standards in areas from food to vehicle emissions as the price for a post-Brexit trade deal. Documents submitted to the US government’s trade agency show that powerful American corporations and industry bodies, in particular in the agri-business sector, want Washington’s negotiators to […]

Women are to be advised they can take the contraceptive pill every day of the month after scientists found that there was no benefit to the seven-day break routinely associated with its use. New guidelines issued to NHS GPs and family planning clinics will make clear that the traditional 21-day cycle offers women no health […]

Even when out shopping, it seems, the troopers of the SAS are ready for action. Such was the case at lunchtime on Tuesday when a member of Britain’s renowned elite regiment found himself in the midst of a terrorist attack on an upscale hotel and office complex in Nairobi. As five marauding gunmen and suicide […]

When a researcher conducting a spring clean in St Andrews University’s chemistry department found a collection of rolled-up teaching charts there was little of immediate interest about the cache found nestling among piles of forgotten laboratory paraphernalia. It was only when the charts were unfolded to reveal a particularly fragile diagram of chemical elements written […]

A former RAF jet pilot accused of killing 11 people during a failed airshow stunt had a record of taking risks and had been previously forced to abort a display because of “dangerous” flying, a court heard yesterday. Prosecutors allege that Andrew Hill, 54, was responsible for “serious negligence” when the 1950s Hawker Hunter fighter […]

A 14-year-old boy was deliberately targeted by his killers when he was rammed off a moped in east London and stabbed multiple times in the back, police said on Wednesday. Jayden Moodie became the fourth person to be stabbed to death in London so far in 2019 after a Mercedes car was used to force […]

MPs from across the political spectrum warned last night that “bullying, fear and aggression” outside Parliament is posing a direct threat to democracy as the police came under pressure to tackle harassment by hardline pro-Brexit protesters. Parliamentarians told i that they have noted a marked increase in intimidation both in Westminster and in their constituencies, […]

For much of her career Dusty Deste made her living by taking pictures of luxury goods, including a stint as Cartier’s in-house photographer. But when she was not immortalising high-end jewellery and taking portraits, the bank manager’s daughter was able to indulge her greater passion – capturing on film life in Britain’s disappearing industrial heartlands. […]

Some four weeks after he began his attempt to land a giant Atlantic bluefin tuna late in the summer of 1933, Tom Laughton finally felt his wooden boat lurch forward as a vast “tunny” took the bait and began a long fight for its life. Mr Laughton, the brother of British film star Charles Laughton, […]

A decision John Major to describe the Queen as “priceless” sparked anxiety among senior aides that it would be interpreted as a dig at the monarch’s then tax-free status. The dose of royal vapours was sparked after Mr Major suggested the wording of a formal message from the Cabinet congratulating the Queen in January 1992 […]

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